[1][2][3] OpenBMC is a Linux distribution for BMCs meant to work across heterogeneous systems that include enterprise, high-performance computing (HPC), telecommunications, and cloud-scale data centers.

[5] In 2015, IBM collaborated with Rackspace on an open-source BMC firmware stack also named OpenBMC.

Founding organizations of the OpenBMC project are Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Google, and Facebook.

[7][3] A technical steering committee was formed to guide the project with representation from the five founding companies.

[8] In April 2019, Arm Holdings joined as the 6th member of the OpenBMC technical steering committee.